Improvement in wheeled cultivator and plow



. s. FISHER. WHEELED GULTIVATOR AND PLOW.

No. 95,453. Patented Oct. 5, 1869.

timed fittin fittest Letters Patent No. 95,453, dated October 5., 1869,

IMPROVEMENT IN WHEBLED CULTIVATOR AND PLOW.

The Schedule referred to iri these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL FISHER, of Hightstown, in the'county of Mercer, and State of New J ersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vheeled Cultivators or Flows; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the machine.

Figures 2 and 3 represent perspective views of de gached pieces of the machine, not distinctly seen in My invention relates to a series of cultivators orplows, connected to or with the axle of a pair of carlying-wheels, and so constructed as to be' capable of the several adjustments necessary in such machines to adapt them to the varied uses or purposes of farm'- mg.

To enable those skilled in theart to make and use my invention, 1 will proceed to describe the same, with reference to the drawings.

A is the axle, upon which the carrying-wheels B are placed and turn, they being adjustableon said axle by means of the collars and set-screws a a, so as to be set. nearer to or further from each other, as the distance between the rows to be plowed or cultivated may require. v

The tongue 0 is fastened centrally to the axle A, and a bar or plate, I), is fastened to-the tongue at c.

On top of the bar or plate b, and on each side of the tongue 0, are placed bars or plates d d, which can be movedout and in on the permanent barb, and may be guided in its movements by a tongue in one of the bars and a groove in the other.

The object of the sliding or adjustable bars (I (Z is for-the purpose of adjusting the distance between the plows or cultivators, from out to out inter-m ediately,

.or both.

which extend rearward and downward, and have fastened to-thcm, at or near their rear extremities, the cultivator-teeth g,'or plows/1, or parts of each, as the kind of work to be done may require.

The rear ends of the beams E and F are forked or slotted, sous-to receive the shanks iof the cultivators or plows, which are pivoted therein, as shown at j,

and the ends of the shanks 1', beyond the pivots 7,

have an arc, It, on them, furnished with a series of holes, into one of which a pin may be placed to hold the teeth or plows at their adjusted position, and.

lhey are also braced toward their rear ends by overlapping bars I I, through slots m, in which a set-,,

screw, 12, is placed, so that they can be correspondingly adjusted at their rear ends.

The middle cultivator-tooth, y, not having a beam of its .own to carry it, is secured to the beam of one of the other teeth by a right-angledslotted bar, 0, so that it maybe adjusted centrally with regard to its mates or fellows when they are adjusted, and raise and lower with them.

On the rear ends of the braces D D, and in rear of the axle A, there are disks or hubs p p, which have in them a pivot-hole, 'r, a slotted are, 8, and a radial recess, 2, and there is attached to, so as to work in connection with these hubs p, a pulley, q, a springlever, '21, and a pivott, there being a recess in that face of the pulley which sets up against the face of the hub 1), into which the lever to and its spring may enter.

The beams E F are suspended to the pulleys q by chains o, and the driver, sitting in his seat G, may seize the levers 'u, and, by moving them downward and backward, raise up the beams, and the teeth or plows attached thereto, and when, by the swinging of p the lever and the turning of the pulley thereby, the lever comes opposite to the recess t in the hub p, the spring 2', behind it, forces into said recess t, and it there locks the pulley, and holds up the plows-or cultivators.

\Vhen the plows o.- cultivatois are to be let down, the lever n is drawn laterally against its spring until both are in the recess in the pulley, and then theweight of the plows or cultivator-s will turn the pnlleys, if not restrained by the levers, and'they will descend to the ground. i,

A stud, z, in the pulley q, moves in the slotted are 3 of the hub 11, and defines the extent of motion of said pulley.

Having thus fully described my invention,

\Vhat I claim therein as new. and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with amain axle, a pair of carryingwheels, and a main name that can be widened or narrowed, and adjustable beams and plows thereon, the

hub, pulley, lover, and chain, and their appliances,

for raising or lowering, or holding the plows or cultivators on the main frame or axle, substantially as de-. scribed.

Y I SAML. FISHER. \Vitncsscs SAMUEL E. Fisnnn, S. M. SUIIANOK. 

